Natural History Wanderings

The New York Times has a story on eBird today at: Crowdsourcing, for the Birds – NYTimes.com.

If you are not familiar with eBird, it is an online database of bird observations providing scientists, researchers and amateur naturalists with real-time data about bird distribution and abundance. eBird documents the presence or absence of species, as well as bird abundance through checklist data. A web-interface allows participants to send their observations or view results via interactive queries into the eBird database. Internet tools maintain personal bird records and enable users to visualize data with interactive maps, graphs, and bar charts. To learn more about eBird go to About eBird.